Migraine Medicine In New Zealand
If sheep, spectacular scenery and bungee jumping weren’t enough, here’s yet another good reason to move to New Zealand. Maxalt MLT (rizatriptan benzoate) is now being fully funded by the government there through subsidies. The estimated 400,000 migraineurs in New Zealand would cheer, but that would be too painful.
What Is Maxalt MLT?
This is a fast acting triptan that you don’t need to swallow (a plus for those you are prone to sudden extreme nausea during migraines). It’s a 10 mg wafer that dissolves on your tongue. Some clinical studies show that the drug can work as quickly as thirty minutes after taking it, although the average time is about an hour. It came out in 1998 and has been legal in New Zealand for some time — although paying for it made it far out of reach for most. You can legally get it on over 60 countries, including Canada, England and the United States.
What If You Live In America?
It’s a shame this kind of stuff can’t happen in other countries like the US. But then again, health care is not seen as a right in America. The governement health services are apparantly too cash-strapped to help out the millions of migrainuers in America — or any American with just about any sickness, aliment or injury known to mankind.
And heaven forbid the governement tries to take one penny of profit away from Big Pharma. Who would pay them off for turning the other way when they are in office? Although the massive profits and the words “price gauging” is now under investigation from Big Oil, Satan will be skating to work before any Congressperson aims the words “proice gauging” in the direction of Big Pharma.
I can’t be the only one who sees a new Maxalt MLT drug route happening from New Zealand to America. Great — turf wars over triptans. Gives “trippin’” a whole new meaning.
To get you hooked, Merck is offering a 3 pill trial offer, pending a prescription from your doctor. This offer ends on New Year’s Eve, 2008.
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